[Elecraft] Cell Phone Antenna Enhancement?

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Yep, cellular (and GSM) phone repeaters are readily-available that have an
outside antenna and one that goes in the house. Where I'm moving in a couple
of weeks over on the Oregon Coast the cellular/GSM service is spotty and I'm
ordering such a unit today. 

I'll send you some links privately. Some offer highly-directional antennas
to avoid connecting to a tower you don't want to use.  

It is possible to rig a "passive repeater" - two antennas; one up in the
clear and one near where you are with the phone. Indeed, if you aren't
wandering all over the place with the phone in your hand you can simply rig
an outdoor antenna with coax to your phone. Most phones have a connector for
that purpose. I've not done that with a phone, but we did it in some land
mobile installations using 900 MHz some years back when a customer's
facility was behind a ridge line or other obstruction. 

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
I know this is way off target - but I figure there
may be cell phone RF antenna experts lurking in this
forum.....

I'm wondering if one couldn't make up some sort
of antenna-enhancer on our cell phone, to beef
up the cell signal that the phone hears?  There is
no external antenna jack on our Sony Erikson cell
phone - but it does have a 1 inch handle type
shape on top of the phone, where I suspect the
cell phone's antenna is.

73, de Fred, N3CSY, US/CA border 


 
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